Dace

  

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Dace

Definition: Dace

Dace

Noun

1. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "dace" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references)

Etymology: Dace \Dace\, noun. [Written also dare, dart, from French dard dase, dart, of German origin. Dace is for an older darce, from an Old French nom. darz. See Dart javelin.]. (Websters 1913)



Specialty Definitions: Dace

DomainDefinitions

Slang in 1811

DACE. Two pence. Tip me a dace; lend me two pence. CANT. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Dace

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.

EntrySourceExpressionField

DACE

DutchNederlandse Stichting voor KostentechniekEconomics

DACE

EnglishDutch Association of Cost EngineersN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: Dace

Synonym: Leuciscus leuciscus (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Dace

English words defined with "dace": CyprinidaeDobulefamily Cyprinidaegenus LeuciscusHorned daceLeuciscusRedfinSea dace, Sea perch, Spawn eater. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Dace

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Minnow Family--Chubs, Dace, Minnows, and Shiners (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Dace

Illustrations:
Dace

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Usage Frequency: Dace

"Dace" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 78.72% of the time. "Dace" is used about 47 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)78.72%3756,631
Lexical Verb (base form)10.64%5157,705
Noun (proper)10.64%5157,705
                    Total100.00%47N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Dace

The following table summarizes the usage of "dace" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
DaceLast name30026,679
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Dace

Expressions using "dace": Horned dace red dace sea dace. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Dace

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

dace

24

dace wear

11

dace tom

6

dace rainbow

4

dace uss

3

dace finescale

3

dace last save

3

dace move

2

dace northern redbelly

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Dace

Language Translations for "dace"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏الداس سمك نهري. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

вид клен. (various references)

   

Danish

  

strømskalle, almindelig strømskalle. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

DACE (Dutch Association of Cost Engineers), serpeling, Nederlandse Stichting voor Kostentechniek (Dutch Association of Cost Engineers). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

seipi. (various references)

   

French

  

dard (dart), vaudoise, vandoise, meunier argenté, cabotin. (various references)

   

German

  

weißfisch (roach, whiting). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κέφαλος (chub, common grey mullet, flat-head grey mullet, graining, Mediterranean chub, mullet, skelly, striped mullet), λευκίσκοσ (whitening). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

ragadozó ölyv. (various references)

   

Italian

  

leucisco, cavedano (chub, graining, Mediterranean chub, skelly). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

石斑魚 (chub). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

うぐい (chub). (various references)

   

Manx

  

dease. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aceday.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

peixe de água doce (fresh water shrimp, freshwater fish, lucent), escalo do sul. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

clean (chub). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

елец. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

crvenperka (redstart, robin), belica (minnow, white-fish). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

leucisco común, albur (common grey mullet, flat-head grey mullet, gudgeon, striped mullet). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

stäm. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

çamça. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

ялець, плітка (buzz, gup, noise), плотва (roach). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Dace

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Leuciscus leuciscus, Leuciscus leuciscus(Linnaeus,1758), Leuciscus rostratus, Squalius leuciscus, Squalius rostratus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Dace

Derivations

Words beginning with "dace": daces. (additional references)

Words ending with "dace": vendace. (additional references)

Words containing "dace": orchidaceous, predaceous, predaceousness, predaceousnesses, vendaces. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Dace" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aace, adace, adcm, adoce, Adpcm, cdtce, Dabco, dabe, dac, daca, daced, dacet, Dacey, dach, dacia, Dacic, D'acier, Dack, dackel, Dacm, Dacom, dacot, dacs, dact, dacum, dacy, dae, daec, Dage, daje, daki, dakt, Darco, d'arco, dasa, D'ascq, Dase, dashe, Dasi, D'assi, Dassu, dauc, dave, daxe, daye, dcd, dce, dci, deace, decem, decet, dech, deci, deec, deke, delce, derce, desce, diac, dica, dicee, diche, Dicle, dico, Dicu, diec, dikce, dioce, Djassi, dlco, Dmac, Doake, doce, doche, doci, docu, doec, Doyce, draca, draci, dtac, dtake, ducem, ducen, duoce, dutce, dyaki, Dyche, edace, Odacir, sdece. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Dace"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "dace" (pronounced dā"s)
2-ā" sAce, apace, base, brace, case, chase, debase, deface, disgrace, displace, efface, embrace, encase, erase, face, glace, grace, incase, interlace, lace, Mace, misplace, pace, place, race, replace, retrace, space, trace, vase.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Dace

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: aced, cade.

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e"

-1 letter: ace, cad.

-2 letters: ad, ae, de, ed.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e"
 

+1 letter: ached, acned, acred, acted, arced, cades, cadet, cadge, cadre, caged, caked, caned, caped, cared, cased, caved, cawed, cedar, clade, daces, dance, decaf, decal, decay, faced, laced, maced, paced, raced.

 

+2 letters: abduce, accede, acedia, acnode, adduce, advect, advice, alcade, arcade, arched, arcked, ascend, bached, backed, braced, cabbed, cabled, cached, caddie, cadent, cadets, cadged, cadger, cadges, cadres, calked, called, calmed, calved, camped, candle, canned, canoed, canted, capped, carded, carder, caried, carked, carped, carted, carved, cashed, casked, catted, caudex, caudle, caused, ceased, cedarn, cedars, cedula, chafed, chared, chased, chawed, clades, clawed, clayed, coaled, coated, coaxed, codeia, cohead, colead, comade, cradle, craned, craped, crated, craved, crazed, credal, dacker, danced, dancer, dances, deacon, decade, decafs, decals, decamp, decane, decant, decare, decays, declaw, deface, detach, echard, facade, farced, graced, hacked, jacked, lacked, lanced, macled, nacred, packed, peaced, placed, racked, reclad, redact, redcap, sacked, sacred, sauced, scaled, scaped, scared, spaced, tacked, talced, traced, yacked.

 

+3 letters: abduced, abduces, academe, academy, acceded, acceder, accedes, accidie, accrued, accused, acedias, acnodes, acrider, adduced, adducer, adduces, advance, advects, advices, aecidia, alcades, alcaide, alcalde, alcayde, alcoved, amerced, arcaded, arcades, ardency, ascends, batched, beached, belaced, blacked, bracted, brocade, cabined, cackled, cadaver, caddice, caddied, caddies, cadelle, cadence, cadency, cadenza, cadgers, caducei, cairned, cajoled, caldera, calends, calqued, cameoed, canaled, candela, candent, candied, candies, candled, candler, candles, capered, carbide, carders, cardiae, caroled, caromed, carried, cascade, casqued, castled, catered, cathead, cathode, caudate, caudles, caulked, caviled, cedilla, cedulas, celadon, cerated, chaffed, chained, chaired, chalked, chamade, champed, chanced, changed, chanted, chapped, charade, charged, charked, charmed, charred, charted, chasmed, chassed, chatted, cheated, cheddar, cicadae, citadel, clacked, cladode, clagged, claimed, clammed, clamped, clanged, clanked, clapped, clashed, clasped, classed, cleaned, cleared, cleated, cleaved, cloaked, coached, coacted, coapted, coasted, cockade, codable, codeias, codeina, coheads, coleads, comrade, congaed, cordage, cordate, corrade, couvade, craaled, crabbed, cracked, cradled, cradler, cradles, crafted, cragged, crammed, cramped, cranked, crapped, crashed, crawled, creaked, creamed, creased, created, creedal, croaked, crusade, cudbear, curated, cyanide, dackers, dancers, deacons, debacle, debauch, decadal, decades, decagon, decalog, decamps, decanal, decanes, decants, decapod, decares, decayed, decayer, decease, deciare, decidua, decimal, declaim, declare, declass, declaws, decrial, decuman, defaced, defacer, defaces, dejecta, deltaic, descant, detract, dewclaw, dialect, dictate, dieback, discase, dockage, dogface, durance, echards, echidna, edacity, edaphic, edictal, educate, effaced, enacted, encaged, encased, endarch, enfaced, enlaced, escaped, exacted, facades, faceted, faciend, fancied, flacked, fracted, glaceed, glanced, hackled, hatched, hexadic, incaged, incased, inlaced, jaunced, keycard, knacked, latched, leached, located, mackled, maculed, marched, matched, medevac, mediacy, medical, menaced, nuanced, palaced, pandect, parched, patched, peached, peascod, pedicab, pedocal, peracid, poached, pranced, quacked, racemed, radicel, radices, radicle, ranched, reached, reacted, recaned, redacts, redcaps, redcoat, refaced, relaced, roached, saccade, scabbed, scalade, scalded, scalped, scammed, scamped, scanned, scanted, scarfed, scarped, scarred, scarted, scathed, scatted, scraped, sidecar, slacked, smacked, snacked, solaced, stacked, swacked, tackled, tacnode, talcked, thacked, tracked, traduce, tranced, unacted, uncaged, uncaked, uncased, unlaced, vacated, vendace, watched, whacked, wracked, yachted.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Dace


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 61 63 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    .-    -.-.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01100001 01100011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#97 &#99 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0061 0063 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

38676971

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Usage Frequency
7. Names: Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Translations: Ancient
12. Abbreviations
13. Acronyms
14. Derivations
15. Rhymes
16. Anagrams
17. Orthography
18. Bibliography


  

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